“The body always leads us home, if we can simply learn to trust sensation and stay with it long enough to reveal appropriate action, movement, insight or feeling”. Pat Ogden PhD. Founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute.

Leaning on arm on beach with background of sky and beach front flats

Welcome to Moving and Being. I’m Vix and I offer Embodied Psychotherapy and Supervision, Coaching and Somatic Movement Practices in the East Sussex area and online.

What we do

  • I offer a gentle, empathic and embodied approach that works with not just the mind and language but with the body and awareness. You may be seeking a different approach following years of talking therapy, or you may have an intuitive sense that an embodied approach is what you need. I help clients to centre their own felt sense and to become familiar with using awareness to move towards their therapeutic goals. We begin wherever feels comfortable for you.

    I particularly work with female identifying people and LGBTQI+ living with trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD, Autism, grief and loss.

    I offer in person sessions at The Wellington Centre in Hastings or on line and can design bespoke packages to accommodate your current life situations.

  • For Counsellors, Creative Arts Therapists and Psychotherapists and anyone who works with human relationships in their working practice.

    Having a safe, confidential space in which to reflect can transform your practice. I offer creative and embodied tools to help you to orientate yourself in the complexity of human relationships and organisational systems.

    My areas of expertise are in trauma, particularly with c/y/p in education settings, main stream and SEN and adult identifying women, migrants, L:GBTQI+.

    I have 12 years post qualifying clinical experience and a Diploma in supervision (UKCP approved) from the London Centre for Psychodrama. I receive regular supervision from a senior supervisor and my practice abides by the UKCP and ADMPUK code of ethics.

  • Intro to Authentic Movement

    The Humble Hub, 4-5 Shepherd St, St Leonards on Sea.

    Sunday 27th April 2025. 1 - 3pm

    £18 per person

    Authentic Movement is a subtle yet powerful embodied practice that allows individuals to explore the relationship between the creative, psychological and sacred dimensions of their experience through bodily expression.

    The practice involves individuals moving between the role of mover (eyes closed) and witness (eyes open). One is a benevolent witness to the mover’s body as they respond to their internal experience. As mover and witness exchange roles so the process deepens, developing kinesthetic awareness, interpersonal skills, empathy, and a sense of embodied presence.

    Outcomes are that the sensing world is awakened, perceptions clarified, and feelings affirmed – restoring a sense of authority to one’s own bodily-knowing.

    Each stage of the workshop will be guided by me, a qualified Dance Movement Psychotherapist with many years of Authentic Movement practice.

    Who is it for ?

    The capacity to feel at ease with closed eyes for up to 5 minutes is a requirement and previous experience in body mind or creative practice or therapy will be supportive but not necessary.

    What to Bring : The Humble Hub has mats and blankets and cushions so just bring yourself and a warm layer.

    Booking : Through the Humble hub web site : www.thehumblehub.co.uk

    Or my Paypal link above and drop me an email to let me know : movingbeing@yahoo.com

    DATES

    Sun 27th Apr 1 - 3pm

  • "It would be no exaggeration to say that my therapy sessions with Vix were life-changing. Over several years a tragic and difficult personal situation had sapped my self-confidence and enjoyment of life. Vix helped me to set up strategies to protect myself and over weeks of discussion and encouragement, gave me back not only a sense of self-worth but also hope for the future. She is someone who possesses great empathy and I found myself able to talk about problems that up till that time, I’d kept private."

    1:1 therapy client

  • "I suffer from fibromyalgia and CPTSD. Vix has been helping me regain what has been taken away from me at birth; the right to rest and relax. Her soft kind and gentle approach is perfect for my healing journey and releasing trauma and pain from my body. After each session I felt safer, more relaxed and with less pain."

    1:1 therapy client

  • "Vix was calm and patient and excellent at guiding things back to body. She moved beautifully between us all giving everyone personal time”

    Body mapping participant

  • “During the second meditation, during my ‘grounding’, it felt like I had become my image and I experienced a feeling of calm and levitation. I definitely was not expecting to feel that”

    Body mapping participant

Current Workshops

Dance, Movement, Somatics

The Humble Hub, St Leonards on Sea. www.thehumblehub.co.uk

Next One : Sun 10th Nov 11 - 1pm

These classes are open to anyone keen to develop their embodied practice and deepen their body mind relationship through the joy of moving. They can be as energetic and active or as gentle as you wish for them to be as there are no set steps, just invitations and offerings for spontaneous playful exploration using imagery, anatomy, contact and the elements space, gravity, weight.

What to Bring : The Humble Hub has mats and blankets and cushions so just bring yourself and a warm layer.

Booking : Through the Humble hub web site : www.humblehub.co.uk

Or my Paypal link above and drop me an email to let me know : movingbeing@yahoo.com

DATES

Sun 10th Nov 11 - 1pm

Sat 7th Dec 10 - 12

Sat 18th Jan 2 - 4pm

Sat 15th Feb 2 - 4pm

Sun 16th Mar 10.30- 12.30pm

Sun 27th Apr 1 - 3pm